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HARRISONBURG, Va.—God’s Country, a 2017 Herald Press book by pastor and author Brad Roth, received an award of merit inChristianity Today’s 2018 book awards. The winners were announced December 12 and appear in the magazine’s January/February 2018 issue.

The award came in the church/pastoral leadership category, one of 13 categories for honorees. In each category the magazine chooses one winner and then honors a second book with an award of merit. Christianity Today calls the award winners “the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.”

“God’s Country is thoughtful and artfully written,” Jared Wilson, one of the judges, said of the book. “Roth draws wider lessons about the minister’s vocation from his reflection on the specific, narrower context of rural ministry. Any pastor can find a wealth of knowledge here about the needed posture, pacing, and perspective for caring for God’s people.” Will Willimon of Duke Divinity School endorsed the book, saying that “Brad Roth has done a wonderful, unusual thing: he has thought about the rural church in a way that combines both honesty and hope.” Theologian and futurist Leonard Sweet wrote the book’s foreword.

Author Brad Roth serves as pastor of West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge, Kansas. He is a graduate of Augustana College, Harvard Divinity School, and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He and his wife, Lici, have two sons.

Herald Press’s 2014 book Christian. Muslim. Friend: TwelvePaths to Real Relationship, written by David W. Shenk, won a Christianity Today book award in 2016 in the missions/global church category.

God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church is available from Herald Press for $16.99 (paperback) at 800‑245‑7894 and $13.99 (ebook) at the Herald Press webstore, www.HeraldPress.com, Amazon, and other online sources. Canadian customers can order from CommonWord (877‑846‑1593), Parasource (800‑263‑2664), and elsewhere.